Injection locking bandwidth in 1550-nm VCSELs subject to parallel and orthogonal optical injection

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 585-593

  Hurtado, A ^a   Labukhin, D ^a   Henning, Ian D ^a   Adams, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injection locking bandwidth; Polarized optical injection; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT METHOD; FREQUENCY DETUNING; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; INJECTED POWER; INJECTION LOCKING BANDWIDTH; INJECTION-LOCKING; LASING MODES; OPTICAL INJECTION; PARALLEL POLARIZATION; POLARIZED OPTICAL INJECTION; STABILITY MAP; THEORETICAL MODELS; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS (VCSELS);

BANDWIDTH; LASERS; POLARIZATION;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

EID: 67650821873     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2014970     Document Type: Article

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